Roye Glass

1 Corinthians 10:12-14

1 Corinthians 10:12-14 (MSG)
Don't be so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

Jesus praying

Mark 1:35 (NLT)
Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.

Weak to Strong

Hebrews 11:34 (NLT)
quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength. They became strong in battle and put whole armies to flight.

God's Call

Romans 11:29 (NLT)
For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.

Calling

Romans 10:15 (NLT)
And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”

Holy Spirit

Romans 8:26 (NLT)
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

Forgiveness and freedom lead to worship

Luke 17:15-19 (NLT)
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!”

Jesus loves....

John 14:12-14 (NLT)
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.

Gideon's Leadership

Judges 6:34 (MSG)
God's Spirit came over Gideon. He blew his ram's horn trumpet and the Abiezrites came out, ready to follow him.

Gideon

Judges 6:12-16 (MSG)
The angel of God appeared to him and said, "God is with you, O mighty warrior!"

Judges 6:27 (MSG)
Gideon selected ten men from his servants and did exactly what god had told him. But because of his family and the people in the neighborhood, he was afraid to do it openly, so he did it that night.

Reason for the test

Judges 3:4 (MSG)
They were there to test Israel and see whether they would obey God's commands that were given to their parents through Moses.

Training for battle

Judges 3:1-2 (MSG)
These are the nations that god left there, using them to test the Israelites who had no experience in the Canaanite wars. He did it to train the descendants of Israel, the ones who had no battle experience, in the art of war. He left the five Philistine tyrants, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal Hermon to Hamath's Pass. They were there to test Israel and see whether they would obey god's commands that were given to their parents through Moses.

God doesn't give up on us

2 Samuel 14:14 (MSG)
We all die sometime. Water spilled on the ground can't be gathered up again. But God does not take away life. He works out ways to get the exile back."

Overflowing love of Father

Ephesians 1:17-19 (MSG)
But I do more than thank. I ask-ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory-to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,

Ephesians 3:7-8, Ephesians 3:20

Ephesians 3:7-8 (MSG)
This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God's way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.

Ephesians 3:20 (MSG)
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

Mark 4:40

Mark 4:40 (NIV)
He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"

Ephesians 4:12-13

Ephesians 4:12-13 (MSG)
to train Christians in skilled servant work, working within Christ's body, the church,

Psalm 38:18

Psalm 38:18 (MSG)
I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.

Psalm 38:15

Psalm 38:15 (MSG)
What I do, God, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God-you will answer!

Habakkuk 3:17

Habakkuk 3:17 (NIV)
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

Jeremiah 29:13

Jeremiah 29:13 (MSG)
"When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." god's Decree. "I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you"—god's Decree—"bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.

Jeremiah 27:10

Jeremiah 27:10 (MSG)
They're handing you a line of lies, barefaced lies, that will end up putting you in exile far from home. I myself will drive you out of your lands, and that'll be the end of you.

Jeremiah 1:5

Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV)
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Nahum 1:15

Nahum 1:15 (NIV)
Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely destroyed.

Nahum 1:7

Nahum 1:7 (NIV)
The lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,